The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 27, sentence 16
Then came a dreadful period, when news from the king ceased entirely.
What happens: come, cease · To what, where: dreadful period, news
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 came | advmod |
| 2 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 period | det |
| 4 | dreadful | dreadful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 period | amod |
| 5 | period | period | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 came | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 ceased | punct |
| 7 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 ceased | advmod |
| 8 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 ceased | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 king | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 king | det |
| 11 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 news | nmod |
| 12 | ceased | cease | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 came | conj |
| 13 | entirely | entirely | ADV | _ | 12 ceased | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | a dreadful period | then | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location period=Theme | ||||
| 2 | cease | participle | news from the king | entirely property | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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